Θinsta Week 10:
After learning about Marxism this week, I was able to reflect a little bit. First of all, I am glad our national economy is not based on Marx’s theory. But there are several aspects of my life that are communistic in nature, namely my family and my church. A private church ought to be socialistic, where members give to those who are less fortunate and help lift each other up when they need it. For instance, I went on this mission trip. From where I am from, most people are pretty blessed, so we all donated some of our time and resources to the less fortunate people of the world, expecting nothing in return. These people weren’t forcing us to give them money, we did it on our own accord, and were able to build porches, fix roofs and bathtubs, and much more.
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Checkers is the only classical game allowed in the house because Jevil cheats by magically changing the cards in poker and Marx always calls the knight in chess the horse and it pisses Dimentio off
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Dialectic:
"Dialectical materialism is the worldview on the part of the Marxist-Leninist party. It is called dialectic materialism because its approach to the phenomena of nature, and its method of studying and learning them is dialectical, while its interpretation of the phenomena of nature, their conception of these phenomena, their theory, are materialistic, "Joseph Stalin said at the opening of his 1938 book, Dialectical and Historical Materialism. The dialectical word comes from the Greek and means discourse, for debate, which the ancient Greeks saw as the best way to find the truth when there is a disagreement, debates and contradictions will collide and synthesize in absolute truth.
The dialectic originated in Hegel, a German philosopher, but this dialectic is opposed to that of Marxism, because it is idealistic.
But in explaining what dialectics really is, the dialectic sees the whole world intertwined, and in development, it says that there are contradictions everywhere, and that when contradictions are resolved, new contradictions are formed, and so on. There is progress whenever contradictions are resolved. For these and other reasons it is that in the Marxists we say that revolution and socialism are a practical nesity, because the contradictions of capitalism will be overcome and solved by socialism. Dialectics opposes metaphysics which states that things are not in development, the only thing that changes are the qualitative changes and that things are not interconnected, they are isolated.
Therefore, summing up the dialectic, let us now define its laws:

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What is Marxism?
Marxism is a science based on observation created by Marx and Engels but prolonged and developed by Lenin, Stalin and Mao Tse Tung among others. Many think that Marxism is just and simply communism or socialism. This only reveals, that these people never read or did a study of Marxism.
Marxism is much more than that. Let us now see the three sources and the three integral parts of Marxism (which in the future will be analyzed individually and in depth each one). The three sources of Marxism:
It is quite clear that Marxism was not an invention that suddenly emerged from the thoughts of the magnificent brains of Marx and Engels. The socioeconomic changes of the epoch and rise of capitalism provided the basis for the emergence of true proletarian ideology. The actual content and form of this ideology, however, were the product of the struggles waged in the most important fields of thought of the time. Marx and Engels had several people who inspired them, it was in doing the study of the theories of Adam Smith, feuerbach, hengel among others that they, absorbing what was good of their theories and rejecting what was wrong that they could formulate their theories . But people are only part of their inspiration, they are part of the first source of Marxist thought, the classical German philosophy. Any ideology must have its foundation in some philosophy, and both Marx and Engels, as we have seen, had a strong foundation in classical German philosophy,
where they rejected, therefore, all the anti-progressive aspects that sustained the existing feudal society, and developed in the progressive and revolutionary parts, to lay the foundations of Marxist philosophy.
The second source of Marxist thought was English political economy was the second important source of Marxism. England being the center of the Industrial Revolution, it was only natural that the study of the economy and its laws should reach its peak in this country. It was a new field of study, which basically began with the growth of modern capitalism.

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Frederick Engels was born on November 28, 1820 in the textile town of Barmen in the Prussian province of the Rhine. Son of a wealthy owner of a Cotton spinning factory and fiercely religious Protestant Christian with a reactionary political vision. Thus, Engels very early saw the extreme poverty and exploitation of the working class. To survive against factory competition, the artisans were forced to work from morning to night. Many times they tried to drown their sorrows in drink. Child labor and occupational lung diseases were excessive.
In addition to the working-class contact, Engels also made an in-depth study of various socialist and communist theories and even encountered many of the French and German leaders and writers who had formulated these theories.
Engels was one of the most important thinkers for the formation of Marxism, it was with him that Marx formulated and developed his theories. Obviously no one can be born Marxist - not even masters like Marx or Engels. There has to be a process through which ideas and points of view are developed and formulated and take a basic form that can be called ideology. Of course, Marx and Engels also had to undergo such a process before discovering and apprehending the basic truths of what we now know as Marxism. This process of thought was naturally determined in large measure by the concrete experiences through which both passed. Contrary to popular opinion, it was Marx who took inspiration from Engels 'writings, not the other way round, it was Marx's interest in Engels' writings that led to his meeting in Paris between August 28 and September 6, 1844. This was a historic meeting that helped the two great thinkers to clarify their ideas and lay the foundations of Marxism. Although both have independently arrived at similar conclusions previously, this meeting helped them to reach a complete theoretical agreement. It was at this meeting that they came more clearly to an understanding of the materialist conception of history, which was the cornerstone of Marxist theory.

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Mao Zedong also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. His theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as Mao thought
Mao was the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan. He had a Chinese nationalist and anti-imperialist outlook early in his life and was particularly influenced by the events of the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 and May Fourth Movement of 1919. He later adopted Marxism–Leninism while working at Peking University, and became a founding member of the Communist Party of China (CPC), leading the Autumn Harvest Uprising in 1927. During the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang (KMT) and the CPC, Mao helped to find the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, led the Jiangxi Soviet's radical land policies, and ultimately became head of the CPC during the Long March. Although the CPC temporarily allied with the KMT under the United Front during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), China's civil war resumed after Japan's surrender and in 1949 Mao's forces defeated the Nationalist government, which withdrew to Taiwan.
On October 1, 1949, Mao proclaimed the foundation of the People's Republic of China (PRC), a single-party state controlled by the CPC. In the following years he solidified his control through land reforms and through a psychological victory in the Korean War, as well as through campaigns against landlords, people he termed "counter-revolutionaries", and other perceived enemies of the state. In 1957, he launched a campaign known as the Great Leap Forward that aimed to rapidly transform China's economy from agrarian to industrial. Mao initiated the Cultural Revolution, a program that, in short, aimed at ending the whole of the old culture and replacing it with the new one, that the people wanted

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Vladimir Lenin adapted Marx to the changed conditions of capitalism in the late nineteenth century. Lenin also noted the diminished revolutionary possibilities in the more developed industrial west and he even remarked on the growing prospects of a labor-aristocracy, a relatively well-t-do segment of workers, in these nations.
But Lenin explained this as a result of imperialism, whereby the developed West between 1875 and 1914 had divided up the Third World into colonial empires and spheres of influence.
During this period, the British Empire, the largest by far, stretched from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa to Cairo. From India and Burma in South Asia to the subcontinent of Australia, Malaya and Hong Kong and Singapore in East Asia. And finally to Jamaica, the Bahamas, British Honduras and British Guyana in the Caribbean area.
The French conquered much of the Saharan and sub-Saharan West Africa as well as Indochina. Even the latecomers like Germany claimed some territories in Africa as well as some Pacific Islands and spheres of influence for economic exploitation in Turkey and China.
The United States, already attained its “manifest destiny” of stretching from coast to coast at the expense of native Americans and Mexico. It also reached out to establish its hold over Hawaii and Panama Canal Zone and to Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines (after Spanish-American War 1898)
Even tiny Belgium claimed for its monarch the huge and mineral rich Congo in Central Africa, not to mention Netherlands colonizing the Indonesian Islands.
The great ancient empires of the Ottomans in the Middle east, India, Persia and China were either totally swallowed up or dismembered or subordinated to the industrialized West and Japan.
Tsarist Russia, while itself an imperialist power became increasingly open to economic exploitation by French, German and British finance capital.

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